V For Vendetta

Is a pretty good movie. Yeah it takes the age old debate that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and places it into a modern context but it does it well.

Natalie Portman is at her hottest and she is surface of the Sun hot. She has proven that she can act, which she did in Closer (which I hated) but you could hardly tell that she could act just by watching Star Wars: The Wooden Trilogy.

V is another comic turned movie in a trend that I really enjoy. I believe that comics can make incredible movies....well as long as you don't let Tim Burton near one that is. They are naturally visual, usually have very solid stories to tell, and if the Director just uses the source material given to him then they should explode on screen with a visual fury that most Hollywood productions lack today.

V centers around London after it has been taken over by a facist regime and freedom is essentially outlawed. V takes it upon himself to wake up the population to what freedom is and inspires the masses to fight for it once again. He inspires the population to care once again.

There are a lot of comics that I would love to see on the screen, like The Watchmen, long rumored to be a big production but who knows when it'll ever happen. The Dark Knight Returns would be an amazing movie if given to the right Director. Who wouldn't want to see the Dark Phoenix Saga done correctly??? I'd like to see Daredevil's Apocalypse, Frank Miller's best work on that title done. You know, even The Hulk would have been a great movie if they would have used a story from the actual title instead of just taking a character and giving him over to some writers who probably knew nothing about him.

The problem usually comes up though when for some reason the Director stays from the source material and the result is usually less than stellar when it could have been spectacular.

Take Sin City for example. That was probably the perfect version of a comic brought to life. Robert Rodriguez took the source material and essentially made it his script. He brought that title to life and did it so well that it should be the high water mark for the comic to movie trend. Then on the other end of that scale is hack director Tim Burton who tends to destroy everything he comes into contact with. I'm amazed they still greenlight his ideas. His Batman was a total debacle and any comic fan should stand by me in that statement.

When will the comic to movie trend end?

Hopefully never and if it does than years and years after the remake trend ends.